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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Exploring Sentience: Plants, Animals, and Perspectives on Consciousness

This chapter examines the differences in sentience between plants and animals, highlighting the lack of mobility in plants as a factor in their presumed self-awareness. It also discusses various philosophical viewpoints on consciousness, emphasizing the significance of reasonable disagreements and the speaker's personal evolution in understanding materialism.

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